Lee Sinyoung

Lee Sinyoung

Hello. My name is Lee Sinyoung, from South Korea.

I came to Japan as a student of Preliminary Course for Japan-Korea Joint Exchange Program in Science and Engineering in October, 2010. After I learnt Japanese language, basic mathematics and science at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) for 6 months, I enrolled to Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Informatics and Engineering as an undergraduate student. Now, I am 2nd year student of Master’s course in Department of Mechanical and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering. I am currently conducting research on biomedical engineering field related to human auditory organ in Professor Koike’s laboratory. After I complete my Master’s program, I am planning to apply for a Doctoral program to continue my research.

The laboratory I am working is doing researches related to clinical practices that normally do not conduct in laboratory of engineering science field. I believe the researches we are now conducting in our lab are worthwhile because these researches can help people in the future.

UEC has been conducting advanced researches in various fields. As a result, it has been selected as one of the universities under “The Programs for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities” supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). In addition, UEC archived excellent results on various researches. For example, the first “nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) “ in Japan , which developed “magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)” later, was invented by UEC faculty members. Also, the University developed the technology we could use for radio wave clock for the first time in Japan. Moreover, UEC gets the good hiring rate of our fresh graduates every year.

Although the number of international students of UEC is not high, they provide sufficient support to all international students. All staffs of International Students Section and faculty members of Center for International Programs and Exchange (CIPE) are always kind and give us good advice. UEC also takes place many international cultural exchange events, such as Kimono dressing event and overnight home stay program, etc. Likewise, in comparison with other universities, the activities by UEC Korean student society are more active.

UEC is located in Tokyo, Capital City of Japan. It is very convenient location to go to international airports in Tokyo area. It is a good place for studying as well as doing extracurricular activities because we can go to Shinjuku in 15 minutes by special express train.